Iran
2026
STATUSRetentionist
EXECUTIONS 2026869
SENTENCES0
- GOVERNMENT
- theocratic republic
- CONSTITUTION
- December 1979, revised in 1989 to extend presidential power
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on Sharia law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court
RELIGIONS
Shia majority; 10% Sunni; Christian, Jewish, Bahá'í, and Zoroastrian minorities
From the country
- DECEMBER 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Massoumeh Zare’i executed in Amol prison on 14 December
128th woman since 2013
- DECEMBER 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Tazehkar executed in Meshgin Shahr Prison on December 12
For murder
- DECEMBER 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdolsalam Barahooi executed in Isfahan Prison on December 12
For drugs
- DECEMBER 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bakhtiar Sarmadi and Hossein Heydarzadeh executed in Adel-Abad on December 12
For murder
- DECEMBER 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hashem Amiri executed in Gorgan Prison on December 12
For murder
DECEMBER 11, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sivan Hosseini executed in Sanandaj on December 11
For murder
DECEMBER 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three (unidentified) women hanged in Kerman on December 9
The number of women executed in Iran since 2013 reaches 127.
DECEMBER 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ibrahim Sistani executed in Kerman Central Prison on December 9
Iran has executed more than 60 Baloch since the beginning of 2021
DECEMBER 6, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Akbar Mohammadi executed in Neyshabour Prison on December 6
Maybe 18 at the time of crime
DECEMBER 6, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Tavakoli executed in Shiraz Prison on December 6
At least 110 prisoners executed on drug charges in Iranian prisons in 2021
DECEMBER 6, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohmmadreza Mazkouhi executed in Zanjan on December 6
For drugs
DECEMBER 5, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - November 2019 Protester Abbas Daris Sentenced to Death
And Brother Mohsen to Life Imprisonment